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| Course ID: | INTL 4250. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | American Foreign Policy | Course
Description: | The history and content of American foreign policy as well as the foreign policy-making process. The role of individuals and nongovernmental organizations in making foreign policy in a mature democracy. | | Oasis Title: | AMER FOREIGN POLICY | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in POLS 4250 | | Prerequisite: | INTL 3200 or INTL 3300 or permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | Course Objectives: | This course examines how U.S. foreign policy decisions are made. The student will
acquire a strong understanding of how America selects its various instruments of
foreign policy, form war and peace, trade and aid, and open diplomacy, on the one
hand, to secret operations and the exercise of moral suasion, on the other hand.
The course will be a blend of theory, empirical research findings, ethical
evaluaations, and concrete case studies. Each student will be expected to take a
mid-term examination and a final examination (each respectively worth 25 percent of
the student's grade in the course), write a research paper (25 percent), and
participate actively in classroom discussions (25 percent). Half of the material
covered in the exams will come from the reading and half from lecture. | | Topical Outline: | The Theory and Practice of American Foreign Policy
The Constitutional Matrix
Executive-Legislative Conflict over Foreign Policy
The War Powers
The Treaty Powers
America's Secret Foreign Policy
Trade and Aid
Moral Suasion
The Future of American Foreign Policy | |
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